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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Blueflood vs. GeoMesa vs. LokiJS vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tables

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

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Score	0.78
Rank	#221	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#353	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.81
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	4.44
Rank	#80	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

blueflood.io

www.geomesa.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Alibaba

Rackspace

CCRi and others

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2016

2013

2014

2009

Current release

4.0.5, February 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

JavaScript

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

HTTP REST

JavaScript API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

View functions in JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on Cassandra

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

depending on storage layer

none

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

depending on storage layer

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes, using Riak Security

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